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The Artist's Corner

Hello, and welcome to the Artist's Corner!!!

This is a club for all artists out there who would love to share their experiences with art, digital or...um...not digital... Anyway, you can discuss all of your art needs here. Maybe you have a question about shading. Maybe you want to know how much an important tool costs. Maybe you just want to hang around fellow artists. Look no further, this is the club!!!

This club is open to anyone who participates in any form of graphical art, including traditional (painting, pencil drawing, etc.), digital, graphic design, and anything in-between. It doesn't matter whether you do it as a hobby, an amateur who takes commissions, or a fully-fledged professional; everyone is welcome regardless of age or experience level. Feel free to discuss anything that strikes you, ask questions, request feedback, and enjoy art in general!

Rules

Follow all SPPF rules. You all already know this.

You should be an artist of some kind to join. Again, it doesn't matter whether you do it as an occasional hobby or if you're in art school studying to be a professional, but if you consider yourself enough of one to call yourself an artist, then you're very welcome here.

Stay on topic. Art is a broad discipline, and conversations will always find ways of veering off elsewhere, but try to keep it as related as you can.

Be appropriate with language and imagery alike. While I'm not personally opposed to depictions of mature content (violence and blood, porn, or touchy iconography or subject matter, among other things), some people may be. If you absolutely must post it, make sure to clearly label and LINK TO IT from an outside source instead of image tagging it. I'm lenient, but let's not do stuff like this in excess to begin with. Also, try to avoid language that might make people uncomfortable; same idea as the part with images.

Inactive members will be removed at certain intervals. To keep the list clear, I'll probably do a pruning of it every so often and take note of who has or hasn't participated much. You don't need to be creating something to show off, but at least let us know you're alive with a little conversation!

Be respectful to all members, especially if offering or responding to feedback. Critique is a subjective matter, but standard courtesy still applies on both sides. Do not attack someone whose art you don't like, and do not retaliate if you disagree with what someone said about your art. I'll handle disputes, should they arise, on a case-by-case basis.

Please VM me your application to join as well as posting it in the club! Let's continue this trend, since it does make it easier to figure out who needs to be added!

ADDED 4/15/2013: Please VM or PM me if you change your name, or are about to change it. For ease of keeping track, and so I can go in and change your username on the list. Pretty simple.

ADDED 4/15/2013: Do not quote long or image-heavy posts in your responses, unless you happen to be specifically pointing something out in the image or something. Either trim the quoted post down so it's still clear who you are responding to without being long, or don't quote the post at all if it doesn't seem necessary. An easy mistake to make, but it'll save a few scrolling fingers and a bit of frustration to avoid this where possible.

Strike/Ban List

I'm sure you all know the basics, but let's go over it again for good measure: three strikes, you're out. Your first strike nets you a warning, the second will get you a one week ban from the club, and the third will see you permanently removed.

It is at my discretion to give strikes or change the consequences, depending on the offense. I reserve the right to give different punishments based on the severity of whatever it was you did, and also maintain that the rules list above is by no means a comprehensive list. Basically, use your common sense and don't try to skirt doing stupid things just because it wasn't in the rules.

BANNED: Shiny Glaceon: For art theft from various sources.

Application

I'd like to join the Artist's Corner!

Username:Nickname:What art you enjoy doing:How you became interested in art:

Username: PopPrincess_Lyra
Nickname: PPL :3
What art you enjoy doing: Bascially any kind of Art. Drawing, sketching graphics, Digital, Spriting... Any, ye name it Not sure about painting or sculpting though...
How you became interested in art: Since I was little, 5 years old Daddy was great at Art. That's how my parents met XD Daddy drew for peeps and mom was one of his fave costumers XD nya~

Username: Sweet May
Nickname: SM is ok too if you're lazy to type out my username.
What art you enjoy doing: Original and digital. It saves me paper and money. >
How you became interested in art: Okay it's story time!~ I've been drawing since I was really, really young. Like I spent a year in elementary school drawing mustache birds, straight trees and five petal flowers on a notebook with markers. Later on I got really, REALLY obsessed with the Powerpuff Girls that I would draw fan art of them and try to make my own lame characters. During middle school I was so gung-ho on Pokemon I bought those "How to draw Pokémon" books and tried drawing Hoenn pokes and some 2nd gen. Come high school I was awe-struck at one of my favorite Pokémon fanartists and I wanted to draw just like them! So after being introduced to deviantart and buying a wacom tablet, I drew a lot of fan art and birthday presents for friends. Now I almost do the same but I'm working to improve my artwork. Good to see there's progress... even if slow~

Username: Azulart
Nickname: Azu
What art you enjoy doing: Unique styles.
How you became interested in art: Started with Graphic design on school, and turned out to be an great hobby aswell (Considering signatures and such)

Time for a topic for discussion... How do you guys feel about the old marker vs pencil crayon argument?
Me, I like both, but I'm saving up for good quality markers right now. However, in some instances, you'd need both markers and pencil crayons to fully show highlights and lighting and the such.

Username: pokeram
Nickname: Ram
What art you enjoy doing: Um....drawing, painting, signatures, avatars, spriting, etc.
How you became interested in art: See, when I was...3 or 4, I had this art kit thingy. It had paint (watercolors), pencils, pastels, markers, crayons, etc. So I liked to take a piece of paper, paint my hand, and slap it on the paper. Then my mom would stick it to the fridge.
Now I am still (though not making hand prints) drawing/painting, and doing stuff with Pokemon sprites. So basically, I became interested when my mom gave me that kit thing. It started everything.

Username: pokeram
Nickname: Ram
What art you enjoy doing: Um....drawing, painting, signatures, avatars, spriting, etc.
How you became interested in art: See, when I was...3 or 4, I had this art kit thingy. It had paint (watercolors), pencils, pastels, markers, crayons, etc. So I liked to take a piece of paper, paint my hand, and slap it on the paper. Then my mom would stick it to the fridge.
Now I am still (though not making hand prints) drawing/painting, and doing stuff with Pokemon sprites. So basically, I became interested when my mom gave me that kit thing. It started everything.

Accepted Ram! Cool story

Feel free to 'advertise' this club to other artists you may know guys. New members are always wanted and welcomed.

Username:CandleReaper (Soon to be Losy Requiem)
Nickname:Lit or Lost, your choice
What art you enjoy doing: Any really, but mostly sprite work.
How you became interested in art: I don't know, I guess just seeing everyone looking at art, and my eyes just seeing what looks good and what doesn't. I started to specialize n Pokeballs, and have branched out now, doing a myraid of things.

Username: Lucario188
Nickname: Luka
What art you enjoy doing: Drawing/sketching in manga/anime-style is my favorite, but I really love doing practically all types of art!
How you became interested in art: I don't remember ever "becoming interested in it", it's just something I've been doing (with varying degrees of success) for basically my whole life. My parents still have random art stuff saved that I did when I was little. I've always loved and excelled in art class at school, and three years ago I got into drawing anime/manga-style, which is what I do most often now.

Hello curious reader! You know that at some point you've wished you could battle like a trainer in the Pokémon anime. You probably dismissed the thought as a passing fantasy, but did you know the Pokémon Anime Style Battling League allows you to do just that? It's true! Read up on how to get started, and if you have any questions the Q/A thread awaits.
Hope to see you around the PASBL!

Username: TheSketchQueen
Nickname: Sketch
What art you enjoy doing: Graphic, and hand drawn. My hand drawn style is a manga/Marvel mashup that I tweaked.
How you became interested in art: I love to read comic books, and abut a year ago I decided I would start one. So I have a couple comic book series, and I like messing around on photoshop, making banners and fusions and other stuff like that. Besides, drawing runs in my family. I'm usually drawing... homework, notebooks, really anything I can draw on gets drawn on. And I'm a techie. I like learning how to use different art programs.

Username:Eeveelover824
Nickname: Eevee if you would please
What art you enjoy doing: i love digital media but i also love color pencil drawing
How you became interested in art: well since i started taking more classes in high school my teacher told me that i had talent so since then i been doing art which i love doing and going for as a major XD

A topic I suggested is the old marker vs pencil crayon argument. Which do you prefer and why?

Also, how would one have an art battle, Azu? If you can explain a bit more, I'd be open to it.

Well to put it simply, I suggest you as leader will chose what kind of banner there will be made.
(Not talking about style but rather the Theme)

Its possible to only announce the theme and leave the rest open for the artist's, but for more challange you can also give 2 stock photo's
we need to work with in the banner. Give an certain date, and when results have been received.
Make an Poll and let the audience chose

Well to put it simply, I suggest you as leader will chose what kind of banner there will be made.
(Not talking about style but rather the Theme)

Its possible to only announce the theme and leave the rest open for the artist's, but for more challange you can also give 2 stock photo's
we need to work with in the banner. Give an certain date, and when results have been received.
Make an Poll and let the audience chose

that sounds fun XD azul you will win like always! lol anything i slash mark i just like to kidding around about

Username: Adalricus
Nickname: Addie
What art you enjoy doing: Mostly basic photo-editing, but also real life drawing.
How you became interested in art: School.. When you are bored, you'll do anything. And I got to like drawing too, even though I am not very good at it

Username: Extroph
Nickname: Ex c:
What art you enjoy doing: I prefer banners, especially gear and simple ones. I also doodle on a regular basis, and on rare occasions I do portraits of my classmates for 5 bucks c:
How you became interested in art: Seeing Mew's, Azu's, and EG's art.

Well to put it simply, I suggest you as leader will chose what kind of banner there will be made.
(Not talking about style but rather the Theme)

Its possible to only announce the theme and leave the rest open for the artist's, but for more challange you can also give 2 stock photo's
we need to work with in the banner. Give an certain date, and when results have been received.
Make an Poll and let the audience chose

Well, that sounds like a good Idea Azu. I'll fail anyways and get last place